Tonight Mexico surpassed Sweden in COVID-19 deaths per million. Sweden is often the first country that comes to mind when thinking of nations whose health authorities bet on beating the virus through developing herd immunity in the population. Mexico has taken a similar approach. https://twitter.com/A__Tapia/status/1309287134734553088

How case detection through testing compares between Mexico and Sweden. Mexico is a world outlier when it comes to testing for the virus and the officials in charge of pandemic management have repeatedly rejected calls for expanded testing & made clear sparse testing is by design.

But in reality, Mexico's population-adjusted pandemic death toll surpassed Sweden's long ago. Most of Sweden's excess deaths are attributed to COVID-19. Whereas in Mexico, they aren't. Graphics via https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries

At this point, Mexico City has the highest excess mortality of any city in the world, both in absolute terms as well as when adjusted for population. Mexico's federal govt has yet to release pandemic excess mortality data for the entire country. https://twitter.com/mariorz/status/1309173227680337920